Four Indianapolis residents charged in identity theft scheme

3:24 PM,
Nov. 1, 2013

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Four Indianapolis residents are facing forgery charges in what authorities describe as an identity theft scheme to use stolen Social Security numbers and faked documents to obtain loans using the victims' credit histories.

Prosecutors allege that the suspects used the stolen Social Security numbers, sold and marketed as "credit profile numbers," or CPNs, to make purchases they would not have been able to do because of poor credit history. The credit lines included car purchases up to $60,000.